Books Quote by Alan Kirby

“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of…

— Harold Brodkey

“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their…

— Alessandra Torre

“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles,…

— Simon Cheshire

“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible…

— Andrew Clements

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it another dimension.…

— Nina Bernstein

In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've…

— E. B. White

“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.”

— Jennie Chancey

“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced…

— Camron Wright

“In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading…

— Ann Romines

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience.…

— Jonathan Lethem